Three reasons not to miss LEGO Star Wars Mos Eisley Cantina before it retires

LEGO Star Wars 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina is retiring at the end of the year, so here are three reasons not to miss the only Master Builder Series set on the market.

Far and away the biggest and most detailed LEGO Star Wars set ever based on this wretched hive of scum and villainy, 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina does for the galaxy’s most iconic watering hole what 10236 Ewok Village did for Return of the Jedi’s diminutive teddy bears. It’s the definitive take on the original trilogy sequence in bricks.

The bad news is that it’s also leaving production at some point within the next six months, so time is rapidly running out to add it to your LEGO Star Wars collection. If you’ve been weighing up the pros and cons of picking up 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina, here are three strong reasons not to miss out…

3 – It’s got a laundry list of exclusive minifigures we’ll never see again

75290 Mos Eisley Cantina includes 21 minifigures, a whopping nine of which are exclusive to this set. Those include (deep breath): Ponda Baba, Dr. Cornelius Evazan, Labria, Garindan, Momaw Nadon, Kabe, Hrchek Kal Fas and the two Imperial Sandtroopers. While there’s a small chance we might see a few of those named characters in a future, smaller Mos Eisley Cantina set – Ponda Baba, Dr. Evazan and Garindan, for example – the more obscure aliens are almost certainly never coming back.

That means they’ll probably cost a pretty penny on the aftermarket once this set retires, so even if you don’t have the space to display the entire thing right now, it’s worth snapping up while the going’s good if only for the minifigures.

2 – We’ll probably never get a better Mos Eisley Cantina

We’ve had enough Mos Eisley Cantina sets over the years that this probably won’t be the last time the LEGO Star Wars theme returns to the spaceport. But it feels very, very unlikely that we’ll ever see anything in the scope of 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina, a no-expense-spared approach to this classic Star Wars location that pulls out all the stops and then some.

In addition to its bulging character roster, the 3,187-piece set includes a fully-enclosed cantina, a separate Jawa workshop, a moisture vaporator, two Landspeeders and a Dewback. It’s as complete an experience as you could hope for, and while we’ll probably see certain elements of it again, chances are almost zero that we’ll get anything remotely comparable to the entire package within the next decade. 

1 – It’s only going to go up in price on the aftermarket

There’s a term used among collectors, including LEGO fans, that you might already be familiar with: a white whale. Riffing on Moby Dick, it’s used to describe ‘the one that got away’; that LEGO set you missed out on while it was on shelves and now deeply regret not picking up, because it’s ballooned in price on the aftermarket post-retirement.

That same fate almost certainly awaits 75290 Mos Eisley Cantina in 2025 and beyond, so don’t let this set become your new white whale. If you want to add it to your LEGO Star Wars collection today, the good news is that you can currently pick it up for 20% off at John Lewis, which brings the price down to just £275.99.

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